Today is my baby sister’s 29th birthday. And in about a month, my second-eldest sister will turn 39. And it makes me realise that women…
I think Paul laughed at me today. No, I’m certain he rolled on the floors of Heaven with extreme belly laughs. I think that he…
I beat two children today. I didn’t plan to do it. I mean, I expected to beat one, but the other just happened. I also…
I spent an hour or so transferring my old floppy disks onto my external hard drive today and was very pleased with myself for managing…
Mondays are generally very important to me. As the first day of the new work week, Monday has the ability to set the tone for…
I promised myself that I would go through junk every week so that by the time I’m ready to start packing, I’ve rid myself of…
Right! Remember how I posted a couple of weeks ago about a project I was working on for His Majesty? Well, I can talk about…
It’s been a bit of a crazy month as I cope with a gazillion emotions swarming around my heart and soul. Then tonight, I sat…
My friend posted a list of 100 random things her daughter wrote about herself out of boredom and I thought I’d give it a shot…
It’s been a year since I started Just Frances. Whilst it’s certainly not my first blog, it is unique in that I’ve actually put my…
Have you ever wondered how someone becomes 100% awesome? Well, here’s a Venn diagram to explain it to you! Yay! for awesome parents!
Now that all the truffles are rolled and dipped and drizzled and wrapped, it’s time to share the recipes. First, to credit the inspiration: My…
I’m a runner. I have been since school when I ran on the cross country team. I enjoy running. Really, I do. But I never…
In the evenings, you will quite often find me and the kid in the living room not talking*: Her on the love seat reading or…
Curl ˈkər(-ə)l (verb) [Middle English crullen, curlen, from crulle, curly, perhaps of Middle Low German origin.]transitive verb: 1: to form (as the hair) into coils…
For more than a year I’ve been telling myself to get some really nice, quality face moisturizer because grief can really take a toll on…
Nearly three weeks ago, I posted my goals and promised that I would soon update each goal with a list of tasks required to accomplish…
When I started Just Frances I did so thinking that I’d just throw things out there randomly and that no one would read it. It…
I had to smile today when I left the office and noticed several dozen extremely fit, extremely beautiful, young (legally so), skimpily-clad coeds milling around…
I am one of those people who pushes herself a little (a lot?) too hard when there’s a goal to be met. But I’m trying…